jueves, 20 de octubre de 2011

1º ESO. UNIT 9: Mesopotamia´s city-states.

1. Read carefully the text given in class and answer these questions:


a) Are the same a civilization and a city-state? Why?
b) What was Sumer?
c) Why did Sumerians use mud as their main building material?
d) What is a ziggurat? Why did Sumerians built them?

2. True or false? Correct false statements about the text given in class:

a) Children went to the school in Mesopotamia.
b) The first rulers of Mesopotamia were priests and priestesses but later kings ran the government.
c) Sumerian merchants sold to other cities Mesopotamian products such as copper, tin and timber.
d) The upper class of Sumerian society were kings, priests and civil-servants.
e) Sumerian city-states were isolated because they were always at war with one another.
f) A city-state is part of a bigger state.
g) Most people in Sumer were artisans and skilled workers.
h) The lower social class of Sumer were slaves

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